Creative Sense-Making is built upon a simple but transformative idea: creativity emerges through interaction.
Traditional theories often explain creativity as the generation of ideas within the minds of individuals. Creative Sense-Making expands this perspective by examining how novelty, meaning, and innovation emerge through ongoing engagement between people, environments, tools, technologies, and evolving situations.
Rather than focusing solely on creative products or individual cognition, the framework studies the dynamic interactions through which creativity unfolds.
The theory is organized around four foundational concepts:
Creativity as an emergent process of sense-making through interaction.
The patterns, transitions, and trajectories through which interactions evolve over time.
The idea that creativity emerges through active engagement and participation rather than isolated ideation.
The collaborative construction of meaning, novelty, and shared outcomes among multiple participants, including both humans and AI systems.
Together, these concepts provide a framework for understanding creativity as a dynamic, relational, and measurable phenomenon.
How creativity emerges through ongoing processes of perception, action, reflection, and adaptation.
How interactions evolve through time and generate opportunities for novelty and transformation.
Why creative outcomes arise through engagement with people, tools, environments, and situations.
How multiple participants collaboratively generate meaning, ideas, and innovations.